There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

In one of the very few letters in which he ever complained of Meynell, Thompson told Patmore of his distress at having had to leave London before this new friendship had developed further: ``

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

Poster Products Inc., Chicago, Ill.: a changeable copy and display sign which consists of an extruded impact styrene background in choice of colors, onto which are mounted snap-in letters, figures, or words screened on acetate or other types of sheet stock.

The background, which is available in various widths and continuous lengths, is extruded with parallel undercut grooves which grip the flexible letters securely.

Also Lucy and Winslow had a private contest to see which one could make the most words from the letters in `` importunately ''.

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

Most of all, his letters to his philosophic colleagues show a magnanimity as well as an honesty which help to explain Whitehead's reference to James as `` that adorable genius ''.

Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.

The systems used in AAC include gestures, hand signals, photographs, pictures, line drawings, words and letters, which can be used alone or in combination to communicate.

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

An alphabet is a standard set of letters ( basic written symbols or graphemes ) which is used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the letters represent phonemes ( basic significant sounds ) of the spoken language.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The Greeks took letters which did not represent sounds that existed in Greek, and changed them to represent the vowels.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

Thousands of letters poured into the Justice Department supporting the company ; the Hartford brothers gave extensive interviews with Time which put them on the magazine's November 13, 1950 cover.

After thousands of emails and letters had poured into Teletext they were forced to go back on their previous decision, and asked Biffo to reinstate the humour, and return Digitiser to its daily glory.

Poems and letters from children poured in, and spontaneous fund raising campaigns sprang up around the country.

As a result, 175, 000 letters poured into CBS and the network immediately renewed the show.

The demands were set forth in letters to seven owners of first-run theaters by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.

The following sections are not revelations, but letters, reports, statements, and so forth: 102, 123, 127 – 131, 134, and 135

The following sections are not revelations, but letters, reports, statements, and so forth: 99, 108A, 109 – 113, and 123.

Nor was he always critical about the material that he reproduces ; he includes in the Ecclesiastical History letters supplied to him by a Syriac source purporting to be written back and forth between King Abgar and Jesus.

It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth.

In cryptography, a substitution cipher is a method of encryption by which units of plaintext are replaced with ciphertext, according to a regular system ; the " units " may be single letters ( the most common ), pairs of letters, triplets of letters, mixtures of the above, and so forth.

On 25 April 1616 the courts, at Coke's bidding, held that this action was illegal, writing to the King that " in case any letters come unto us contrary to law, we do nothing by such letters, but certify your Majesty thereof, and go forth to do the law notwithstanding the same ".

Documents captured with the source ( identification card, letters, map sections, and so forth ) can provide information that identifies the source, his organization, his mission, and other personal background ( family, knowledge, experience, and so forth ).

The sīra also includes a number of written documents, such as political treaties ( e. g., Treaty of Hudaybiyyah or Constitution of Medina ), military enlistments, assignments of officials, letters to foreign rulers, and so forth.

Meanwhile, Kukai's new esoteric teachings and literature drew scrutiny from a noted scholar-monk of the time named Tokuitsu, who traded letters back and forth in 815 asking for clarification.

From Caesarea Origen sent forth letters in his own defence, and attacked Demetrius.

But the fact that Fonblanque, a man not only of strong and earnest political convictions but also of exceptional literary ability, did not hesitate to choose this field as a worthy one in which both a politician and a man of letters might usefully as well as honorably put forth his best gifts, must have helped, in no small degree, to correct the old prejudice.

However, he reported to his superiors in England that, " a report was spread that at Montreal that letters of importance had been received from the General Congress ," and that town meetings were being held, " breathing that same spirit, so plentifully gone forth through the neighbouring Provinces.

The movie cuts back and forth between Hiroko and Female Itsuki based on the letters they send to each other.

His " fall " spread consternation through the little society, and the anxiety drew forth from Chrysostom the earliest of his literary compositions — two letters " to Theodore upon his fall.

As Father Moreau stated in one of his letters, he envisioned that: “ Holy Cross will grow like a mighty tree and constantly shoot forth new limbs and new branches which will be nourished by the same sap and endowed with the same life .”

In the above table, an " x " placed before a team's name shows that the team has qualified for playoff position ; other letters may be used to show that a team is guaranteed first place, has been eliminated from contention and so forth.

In his articles and letters Lenin outlined a detailed plan for the uprising showing how the army units, the navy and the Red Guards would be used, what key positions in Petrograd would be seized in order to ensure the success of the uprising, and so forth.

Recently, Jeff Mudgett, his great great grandson, put forth the theory that he was Jack the Ripper based on the testimony of a handwriting expert who said that the letters that Holmes wrote from prison and the Ripper letters were written by the same person.

Young Morris, who, while attending the University of Pennsylvania, also taught and edited a paper, found time to write Henrietta twenty-page letters on everything that engaged his interest, from the acting of Sarah Bernhardt in Philadelphia to his reactions to the comments of `` Sulamith '' on the Jewish reform movement being promulgated by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

`` Please come down as soon as you conveniently can '', the upright letters stalked from the broad-nibbed pen, `` I have an important matter to discuss with you ''.

In my letters I took on a personality that differed from the self I knew in real life.

Made in lengths from 3 to 10 ft., the bars are shaped in cross section to provide a secure fit for the tapered slots molded in back of the letters.

The school has received letters from parents asking, `` What happened to Johnny??

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

Armed with letters from embassies to ministers of countries, especially those in the near and far east, Mrs. Geraghty `` will beat the bushes for oriental talent ''.

And letters began to come in to this column from irate shareholders.

That 60-day period is over and letters are still coming in from shareholders of these four funds, complaining about mistakes in their accounts.

* Excerpts from Orwell's letters to his agent concerning Animal Farm

Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and originally meant ox and house respectively.